Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. WILSONOf course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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